Senior Network Reliability Engineer - Remote

Akamai Technologies, Inc.; Salt Lake City (UT); On-site; USD 169,000 - 305,000; Full time

Job summary

Akamai Technologies, Inc. in Salt Lake City is seeking a Principal Site Reliability Engineer - Network to architect, build, and support scalable network infrastructure for Akamai Connected Cloud.

You will mentor teammates, define SLOs, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and develop automation with Bash, Python, and Go while improving deployment standards. The role requires deep TCP/IP knowledge, BGP, and experience with CI/CD tools; you will participate in on-call rotations to ensure high

Qualifications

• 12 years relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or its equivalent experience.
• Experience in a Site or Network Reliability Engineering, Network Engineering, Software Engineering, or DevOps role working with large-scale distributed systems.
• Deep understanding of TCP/IP, BGP, load balancing and firewall concepts.
• Advanced proficiency with configuration management tools such as Ansible, Salt Stack, Chef, Puppet, or similar.
• Experience with Linux networking at the userspace level and open source networking software such as FRR, Bird, or goBGP.
• Experience developing applications, contributing to codebases, conducting code reviews, and writing scripts using Python, Bash, Go, or Rust.
• Experience with continuous integration / continuous deployment tools such as Jenkins, Github Actions, ArgoCD, or similar.

Responsibilities

• Architecting, building and supporting solutions that foster efficient and streamlined processes.
• Serving as a subject matter expert and mentor to team members, driving code quality standards and providing thought leadership on architectural decisions.
• Collaborating with the cross-functional teams on standards and processes for deployments and updating documentation accordingly
• Building/testing/designing automation tools (including Bash scripts, Python programs, Slack bots) and working closely with network developers
• Defining SLOs for network infrastructure within the Akamai Connected Cloud to ensure high availability and performance.
• Collaborating with our support, operations, and engineering teams to investigate and troubleshoot complex network-related problems including participation in on-call rotations.

Skills

TCP/IP

BGP

Load balancing

Firewall concepts

Code reviews

Python

Bash

Go

Rust

Linux networking

CI/CD

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

ArgoCD

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

Ansible

Salt Stack

Chef

Puppet

FRR

Bird

goBGP

Job description

Akamai Technologies, Inc. in Salt Lake City is seeking a Principal Site Reliability Engineer - Network to architect, build, and support scalable network infrastructure for Akamai Connected Cloud.

You will mentor teammates, define SLOs, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and develop automation with Bash, Python, and Go while improving deployment standards. The role requires deep TCP/IP knowledge, BGP, and experience with CI/CD tools; you will participate in on-call rotations to ensure high